Roadburner440
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So been trying to get a Leaf to try it in my everyday life. So far the car has been excellent. I do see what you guys mean now by the grabby brakes. At low speeds the car just sometimes wants to instantly come to a stop. The only way I have found around it thus far is to use the brake VERY carefully.
To get why I have had bad luck the last couple days. We were charging at the Nissan dealer while going over numbers for the lease, money factors, and what have you. While doing the above we had plugged our Volt in to their Aerovironment charger. No biggy, as it was charging. We got done talking numbers, verifying my order information was in their system, and they offered for us to take the loaner till Saturday. I was stoked as I didn't even really go there with that in mind. Either way me and my wife accepted, and signed the loaner responsibility stuff and brought the car home. This is where the problems began.
Keep in mind at this point we had driven our Volt 61 EV miles yesterday, and up until yesterday have had a trouble free 4951 miles with 4260 of those EV. Go to plug the Volt in first since it would take less time to charge than the Leaf. Light went green, horn blinked, started charging, and then flashing yellow/nothing. Did this a couple times. Lights on my charger were still green mind you. At this point I began to get concerned cause now I had a car in the driveway that needed for this charger to work to be of any use to me over the next few days..... So I pulled out the Volts trickle charger, and tried it. Same thing as the 240V. Plugged the 120V charger for the Volt in to the Leaf and the Leaf started charging. Then plugged the L2 SPX in to the Leaf, and it started charging fine as well.
To make a long story short. I took a video to show the Volt techs so they do not think I am crazy. I am pretty certain it is something to do with plugging it in to a different charger (never done that before, it has only ever charged using its own 120 cord, or the SPX 240 at the house its whole life). Not sure what it could have done, but I am hoping it gets resolved while we have the Leaf on loan as I really do not want to have to buy gas.
Other than that though the Leaf has had its own streak of bad luck this morning. I started off with 105 on the GOM @ 100% charge. Drove on I-64 to base, sat in traffic for an hour only to be told because I don't have a pass they must turn me around. So got back on I-64 to 664 to sit in traffic for another hour or so. Got my pass, sat in traffic for about 30 minutes, and finally got to work. It used 4 of its bars, and is showing about 73 miles on the GOM now. Either way I will be driving back home on 64 to go drop the Volt off, come back to work, and go back home again this evening. So the Leaf has quite the day ahead of it with no charging at my work. So here is to hoping I know how to use your guys range chart. :lol: Otherwise if you see a black Leaf on the side of 64 this afternoon you know I failed.
To get why I have had bad luck the last couple days. We were charging at the Nissan dealer while going over numbers for the lease, money factors, and what have you. While doing the above we had plugged our Volt in to their Aerovironment charger. No biggy, as it was charging. We got done talking numbers, verifying my order information was in their system, and they offered for us to take the loaner till Saturday. I was stoked as I didn't even really go there with that in mind. Either way me and my wife accepted, and signed the loaner responsibility stuff and brought the car home. This is where the problems began.
Keep in mind at this point we had driven our Volt 61 EV miles yesterday, and up until yesterday have had a trouble free 4951 miles with 4260 of those EV. Go to plug the Volt in first since it would take less time to charge than the Leaf. Light went green, horn blinked, started charging, and then flashing yellow/nothing. Did this a couple times. Lights on my charger were still green mind you. At this point I began to get concerned cause now I had a car in the driveway that needed for this charger to work to be of any use to me over the next few days..... So I pulled out the Volts trickle charger, and tried it. Same thing as the 240V. Plugged the 120V charger for the Volt in to the Leaf and the Leaf started charging. Then plugged the L2 SPX in to the Leaf, and it started charging fine as well.
To make a long story short. I took a video to show the Volt techs so they do not think I am crazy. I am pretty certain it is something to do with plugging it in to a different charger (never done that before, it has only ever charged using its own 120 cord, or the SPX 240 at the house its whole life). Not sure what it could have done, but I am hoping it gets resolved while we have the Leaf on loan as I really do not want to have to buy gas.
Other than that though the Leaf has had its own streak of bad luck this morning. I started off with 105 on the GOM @ 100% charge. Drove on I-64 to base, sat in traffic for an hour only to be told because I don't have a pass they must turn me around. So got back on I-64 to 664 to sit in traffic for another hour or so. Got my pass, sat in traffic for about 30 minutes, and finally got to work. It used 4 of its bars, and is showing about 73 miles on the GOM now. Either way I will be driving back home on 64 to go drop the Volt off, come back to work, and go back home again this evening. So the Leaf has quite the day ahead of it with no charging at my work. So here is to hoping I know how to use your guys range chart. :lol: Otherwise if you see a black Leaf on the side of 64 this afternoon you know I failed.